“The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.“
─ Lion Turtle
“Love is brightest in the dark.”
─ Oma & Shu
“You think you’re any different from me, or your friends, or this tree? If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. We’re all living together, even if most folks don’t act like it. We all have the same roots, and we are all branches of the same tree.”
─ Huu
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
─ Uncle Iroh
“The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same. We are all one people, but we live as if divided.”
The entire world is saved because a girl got really mad at her brother one time
A prince’s hobby is to dress up in a theatre mask and commit various crimes, ranging from being a petty thief to full blown treason
The world is thrown into turmoil because a man kills a fish
A character turns into the moon. No, that’s not a metaphor for anything. Yes, that’s rough buddy. No, I will not elaborate further.
One of the scariest people in the world is a teenage princess
A character comes back from the dead just to confess to a crime and then leaves
A small blind girl is the best pro wrestler in the world
One of the saddest episodes is about a character going shopping and having a picnic
The prince has a side job as a waiter
A character changes his entire world view after becoming a cowboy, going on a cruise, working in customer service, and talking to a girl for like 5 minutes
Luke Skywalker is evil and attacks various characters with lightning (which is a total dark-side move btw)
The last line in the show is the blind girl mocking a painting
Sep 4
AtLA facts/plot points that sound like I’m making them up but I swear these actually happen in the show
‘Movie Monday’ is a blog post I share every Monday talking about movies I’m looking forward to the most that particular week! You can click on the name of the movie to see the trailer.
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother’s boyfriend.
Starring Bel Powley in this coming-of-age erotic drama.
Alexander Skarsgard, Kristen Wiig and Austin Lyon can be seen in the supporting roles.
I saw this artsy drama in loads of articles, being named as one of the best movies of 2015, not to mention, 94% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes makes a great impression. The trailer was great and the movie seems pretty fun. Would totally watch it!
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
Starring Richa Chadda as the guilt-ridden daughter.
Shweta Tripathi and Vicky Kaushal are the young lovers trying to fight the social clique barriers.
And Sanjay Misra as the hapless father.
Masaan which won 2 awards at the Festival de Cannes and is considered one of the best movies delivered by Hindi cinema. I actually cannot wait to watch this one.
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Starring the ever-so-talented, Jack Nicholson in the lead role, who actually won one of his 3 Oscars for this role.
The movie also has the supporting acting talents of Danny DeVito, Will Sampson and Brad Dourif.
This movie adaptation of Ken Kasey’s novel is considered one of the greatest films to be ever made and as an ardent admirer of Jack Nicholson, there is no way I’m leaving this one out.
